Are you unsure about how to price your translation services? Chris Durban shared her valuable insights on this thorny topic in her presentation on ‘Pricing issues in translation: is this where you want to be?’ for the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpretersin January 2016. Here’s a round-up of the key points from her presentation. [Read more...]

When you have a document translated by a reputable language service provider, it often goes through a multi-step quality assurance process that includes some combination of translation, editing, and proofreading. But when you’re preparing your document to be translated, there’s one more step you may want to consider: an in-country or in-house review. [Read more...]

Despite the fact that Greek is part of an idiom that expresses a lack of understanding — That’s Greek to me! — Greek is actually a fundamental part of the world of modern language. Here are the seven most interesting facts about this fascinating, transformational language. [Read more...]

Due to Germany’s geographic location in the heart of Europe, the country’s geopolitical importance in global affairs, and the fact that Germany is one of the world’s largest economies, one might expect to come across the German language on a more frequent basis. [Read more...]

Dutch is a fascinating language with a colorful sound. The language is spoken by the 15 million people who live in the Netherlands, as well as the inhabitants of Surinam in South America and the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. [Read more...]

If your business is in Australia (and you, yourself, live there) you probably know that the country boasts a sizeable Polish community, which still mostly uses Polish language at home. I’m also quite sure that you also thought about expansion to foreign markets, Poland included. [Read more...]

During the era of the silent film, translation was exceedingly easy to do: silent films used “intertitles” which interrupted the storyline every few minutes with written text that expressed bits of necessary dialogue. [Read more...]

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of construction blogs. It was brought on by a bout of winter madness and I think it’s high time I cheekily warned everyone off them – and give several, hopefully not than compelling, reasons below. [Read more...]